Don Parris wrote on 24.02.2013 23:20:
> With many thanks to Misa and others who helped out with my question
> about working with hierarchical data, I have now written a blog post
> on how I implemented the ltree module to solve my problem.
>
> http://dcparris.net/2013/02/24/using-ltree-hierarchical-postgresql/
>
> Frankly, if you work with hierarchical data, I'm not sure I could
> recommend it strongly enough. I should think that even experienced,
> advanced SQL gurus would appreciate the simplicity ltree offers, when
> compared to the ugly table designs and recursive queries in order to
> work with hierarchical structures.
>
> I really hope this blog post will help others in the same boat.
>
How do you ensure referential integrity with this approach?
(i.e. make sure that all elements from the path column actually point to an existing category)
Thomas